This package contains various test programs which measure the efficiency of Garbage Collection (GC) in Julia.

Usage:
    run_benchmarks.jl (serial|multithreaded|slow) (all|<category> [<name>]) [options]
    run_benchmarks.jl -h | --help
    run_benchmarks.jl --version
Options:
    -n <runs>, --runs=<runs>              Number of runs for each benchmark [default: 10].
    -t <threads>, --threads=<threads>     Number of mutator threads to use [default: 1].
    --gcthreasds=<gcthreads>              Number of GC threads to use [default: 1].
    -s <max>, --scale=<max>               Maximum number of GC threads for scaling test.
    -h, --help                            Show this screen.
    --version                             Show version.

There are three classes of benchmarks:

• Serial benchmarks run on a single mutator thread.
• Multithreaded benchmarks may run on multiple mutator threads.
• Slow benchmarks are long-running in comparison with the other two classes.

• Run all serial benchmarks 5 times each using 1 mutator thread and 1 GC thread:

  julia --project=. run_benchmarks.jl serial all -n 5

• Run the binary tree benchmarks 10 times each with 1, 2, 4 and 8 GC threads (and 8 mutator threads):

  julia --project=. run_benchmarks.jl multithreaded binary_tree -t 8 -s 8

• Run the red-black tree benchmark once using 1 mutator thread and 4 GC threads:

  julia --project=. run_benchmarks.jl slow rb_tree rb_tree -n 1 --gcthreads 4